This article is pure government propaganda.
I guess the media forgot to tell us about some train bombing or something.
“Ver ah yo pepahs?!”
It sounds like some adolescent boy makes this crap up. “Duz ther yooniformz gotz SKULLZ??” Barney Fife with an arsenal.
Just what bankrupt Amtrak needs. Another reason not to take the train.
>> TSA showed up unannounced to let the public, especially potential troublemakers, know that they are keeping an eye on the rails.
I feel safer already, knowing they’re there in Washington.
...because I’m 1700 miles away from them. :-)
Next they’ll be walking through the trains picking people at random and saying “your papers, please.” And the irony of it will be lost on almost everyone....
Vera Molina may appreciate their presence, but they scare the living $hit out of me. I have quit flying, not out of fear of a terrorist attack, but out of fear of the government and their jackbooted thugs at airports. Now it looks like rail travel is also out. Now it looks like my only options are drive or take the Bloodhound bus.
Obviously they are high capacity automatic assault TSA...
None of the comments on East Bay News were positive, all were negative.
“Looking for trouble where non exists,” as one commenter put it.
Phewww...I feel so much safer now.
May your chains rest lightly Vera.
They have been on the ferries in the Bay Area as well, again, looking for trouble where none exists.
Unlike airplanes, where the only place you can access them is when they’re parked on the ground, trains (and ferries and tractor-trailers etc) can be attacked anywhere, without needing to buy a ticket or be on board. If the TSA really wanted to protect them, they’d be walking the miles of rail/highway or searching the river/lake/bay bottom instead of pointlessly harassing the passengers.
Watch the video. I saw exactly ONE passenger as the thugs were walking through the train.
This is one of the reasons we are $16,000,000,000,000 (is that enough zeroes?) in debt. The government subsidizes a train that no one rides and then they send a dozen “agents” to make sure there is no trouble.
The trouble is that there are NO PASSENGERS you morons!
Total BS.
These are angling to unionize. Before you know it they’ll be everywhere and people are gonna get busted up, kids hurt and dogs shot.
We are ruled by idiots.
Terrorists hijack planes because that is almost the only way you can make the nightly TV news with an airplane.
But who would hijack a train? That would be stupid even beyond what we see in DC.
Explosives set off under a bridge, which is over deep water or a canyon, would be the way to cause big damage to a train.
Great thing about trains as opposed to planes, is you can blow one up without committing suicide in the process. I guess that escaped the notice of our government einsteins, who seem to assume the terrorist is going to buy a ticket to ride when he doesn't even have to.
“The visible deterrent is making a presence known at the station, getting on the train, talking to passengers, lettings the bad guys know that we’re here...”
And the next day you’ll be gone.